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Warehouse & Distribution Science: The book

This is a book-in-progress. We are still revising and extending this text and suggest you print only what you need as you need it.

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Teachers: Contact us for a teacher's edition that includes solutions to the exercises. Meanwhile, here are most of the figures from the book: ppt (4.0MB) or key (9.3MB) format. Also, Prof. Renee Butler has kindly offered to share the ppt slides (9MB) she used in a recent course.

Check the errata for known errors. And please report any errors you find.

Documentation for computer programs now includes explanations of how to run them with the new Java security settings.

0.95

Added material on single versus dual cycle to chapter on unit-load.

Expanded section on Warehouse Management Systems.

Clarified and corrected some homework problems, plus increased the range of difficulty from easy to hard.

Made many small improvements to formatting, consistency of terminology and notation.

Fixed all known errors from previous errata.

0.94

Clarified and extended some issues in case-picking from pallet.

Added analysis of when to re-direct big picks to bulk storage

New homework problems (and some solutions corrected)

Corrects all known typos from previous editions.

Began removing or simplifying some material judged to be of marginal interest.

Moved more figures to tikz or pgfplots for more uniform appearance

Fixed or extended some supporting material: Bird's Eye View now lets user choose arbitrary colors with which to color a map of the warehouse. Fixed a bug in PickPathOptimizer that prevented the program running under Java 1.6.

0.93

Readable on iPad and similar devices

Corrects all known typos from the previous edition

New homework problems (and some solutions corrected)

New material in appendix on inventory

Simplified and streamlined some material in detailed slotting.

Simplified presentation of some material in stocking a
forward area for picking cartons from pallets